Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844 -1907), a professor
of chemisty at Wesleyan College in Connecticut, established
the first agricultural experiment station in the United
States. A great proponent of the early work done in the
home economics movement, he often hired home economists
to help him conduct studies on human nutrition, exercise
metabolism, and human energy balance. In 1923 his daughter,
Helen Woodard Atwater, became the first full-time editor
of the Journal of Home Economics.